Full PC, but a bit of a wait for the ID checker, plus handswabber lurking-ugh.

630a

5

WN

4

2016-05-26

7p

2016-05-24

6p

AA

4

2016-05-20

4p

DL

2016-05-18

200p

WN

4

2016-05-15

1230p

AA

4

2016-05-08

20a

AA

T4, Concourse A

2016-03-07

Full PC. Wait time was to get to the ID checker. Moat dragon only allowing pax 1 try at the WTMD before sending to the NoS.

910a

5

AA

T4 Concourse B

2016-02-16

Full PC for a change!

930a

0

2016-02-07

AA

Terminal 4

2015-08-31

Pre-check lane for concourse B closed, again. Full PC at concourse A.

900a

1

AA

Terminal 4, Concourse C

2015-08-19

Once again, Pre-Check for Concourse B closed, so had to use the WN Concourse across the terminal & walk back around. This is getting old.

500a

0

WN

D

2015-08-04

Closed again. I think this is a permanent condition.

AA

Terminal 4

2015-07-13

Once again, the pre-check lane was closed @ all checkpoints in the termal except the WN C gates. Fortunately, there is a crossover back to the A&B gates so I used the C checkpoint in order to have the full PC experience (I paid for it, after all, w/the $85 TSA extortion fee!)

Real Pre-check this morning & not a hand swabber in sight! Smurfette checking ID didn't even bother to scribble on my BP!

500a

0

AA

Terminal 4, Concourse B

2014-10-07

First time in months, full Pre-check actually open, albeit w/a hand swabber but ignored him & kept going.

440a

0

AA

Terminal 4, Concourse B

2014-09-21

Pre-check lane actually open but hand swabber hiding in the corner, out of sight, like the cockroaches they are. Timesd

530a

0

US

Checkpoint B, Terminal 4

2014-09-13

They have reconfigured this checkpoint so that Pre-check now goes to the far left side where they have a hand swabber hidden from sight until it's too late.

830a

2

US

Terminal 4, Concourse A

2014-09-08

Pre-check lane open but had to get by a hand swabber first-apparently this is now a permanent process.

530a

0

AA

Terminal 4' Concourse A

2014-06-14

Pre-check in the B concourse closed, so trekked to the A concourse where it was open but since the TSAis so overstaffed, had to deal w/a handswabber. $8 billion/yr for this stupidity.

420a

2

AS

2

2014-04-09

My kids were my ticket through the metal detector, but everybody else went through the scanner or got a patdown. The X-ray screener was a piece of work, looking at everybody like they were putting her out. The guy ahead of me had his lighter out to show her, and she asked if it was a fake one, which really threw him for a loop. She kept asking, he stayed confused, and then she told him to click it and show her the flame. Once he demonstrated it was a legitimate incendiary device, he was allowed to go through, keeping his lighter. (??) Then, she pulled aside his bag, my bag, and then a little later a lady's purse. She ran the purse back through immediately, then made me and the guy wait for like ten minutes, no word on what the problem was. Several screeners were roaming about doing nothing, but we waited at least ten minutes while our bags were in limbo. Finally some screeners came over to sort out whose bag was whose. His got taken off to be rifled through, but when I raised my hand as the person with the red backpack, the newly arrived screener with some kind of authority sent it back through the x-ray and gave it an easy all clear. Possibly relevant: I'm a white lady with two little blond kids, he was a dark haired, dark skinned business traveler with an Indian accent.

200p

AA

3, North Checkpoint

2013-10-15

Only WTMD - thank goodness at 4:30 am-could not have handled a pat down at that hour

430a

5

US

Gate A

2013-09-03

All the metal scanners were off. I was the only that opted out of the radiation scanners. The body search was quick.

a

30

US

Terminal 4 A

2013-08-24

WTMD and MMW in use at each lane. TSOs directing most through the MMW, didn't seem random. The whole process is a pointless waist.

800a

DL

Terminal 3, North Checkpoint (gates 15 and up)

2013-08-18

Other than two TSOs having to read my BP before I could get to the conveyor line area, it was uneventful.

930p

UA

Terminal 2

2013-03-01

No wait at this sleepy airport at 7 pm on Friday night. Was glad to see the BKSX are gone, as I had a bad experience here with a snotty female TSA agent while opting out of BKSX here few years ago (Agent Attitude came over from another area and got in my face and aggressively accused me of "escalating" after I had very calmly told the male agent in my line that I preferred the pat down.) (And lady, you'll know when I'm actually escalating, trust me.) In any case, there are now about five separate lines here, each of which looks to have both WTMD and MMW. Tonight, with literally no traffic (one guy ahead of me in line as i walked up) -- all lines were roped off, funneling everyone to line 3. Line 3 WTMG was blocked off - everyone through MMW. I am OK with MMW, so did not get to re-assess the opt-out experience.

700p

2

AA

Terminal 3, South Checkpoint

2012-12-20

4 lanes, metal detector only.

620a

10

WN

T4 D

2012-12-07

The machine in the rightmost lane wasn't running.

730a

DL

3

2012-12-04

No problems passing thru the Metal Detector, process took about 15 minutes on line

WN

Terminal 4, checkpoint D

2012-10-14

Family lane seemed to be closed. Opened the WTMD on the left when the line got backed up. My husband got the WTMD, I got waved to the NOS. took a long time to get a female officer for the opt out, but she was very professional once she arrived.

1130a

AS

Terminal 2

2012-10-13

Almost all funneled to the Rape-i-Scan. Boyfriend and I both opted out. His pat down was professional and courteous. I (female) ended up with Nurse Ratchet for pat down.

11a

5

DL

Terminal 3 North

2012-09-26

Terminal 3 North and South are still WTMD only. No wait and TSA was friendly. Too bad all airport terminals aren't like this!

330p

0

AS

2

2012-08-16

Cordial staff, quick on the pat-down. Lanes 3 and 4 open, both with backscatters

230p

1

UA

Terminal 2

2012-08-06

Backscatter in Lane 4, a bit confusing because lane 3 and 4 are on either side of one aisle, & even though there was only one other person going through security of course they wouldn't let me switch when I realized my mistake.

230p

0

DL

Terminal 3

2012-07-18

Checkpoint for gates 15-26, 2 lanes, metal detectors only.

600a

~10

DL

Terminal 3 (gate 23 and lower)

2012-07-06

TSA continues its stupidity with "random" hand swabs for magic explosive residue. Even after my carryon bags cleared with no problems. Guess they weren't satisfied that they didn't find a terrorist tonite.

920p

US

4-A

2012-06-07

Left lane had at least some travelers goin through a back scatter machine. Right lane was going to a WTMD for all.

Metal dector only for Delta (what about other side of T3, Hawaiian, etc?) Only one lane open with obnoxious TSA chimp barking orders, while crowd laughing at him. Quite funny.

100p

20

US

4-A

2012-04-27

Most lines had X-ray in use for most passengers. Right lane had X-ray roped off. Choose your own adventure. Right after I chose the right hand lane they roped the entire lane off (I think they were closing it for the shift).

340p

0

US

4-A

2012-04-15

Xray at apparently all lines, but random whether you go through xray or WTMD. They seem to have shut down the left-lane WTMD-only option.

400p

5

DL

t4

2012-03-25

Wow I can tell u have many persoanl problems and alot of time on your hands . Read the sins and follow directions stupid then you will have no problems. TSA has never givin me a problem and I fly once a moth. Take a bus or walk if you dont like it because75% of us do!!! See ya chumps!!!

DL

T3

2012-03-20

No scanners!! WTMD only

US

T4, A

2012-03-18

Far left lane led to WTMD, but mainly it was elites being funneled there. I snuck in anyway and pretended I didn't know any better.

810p

5

US

4-A

2012-03-09

4 lanes, choose your own is furthest to the left

650p

US

T4, checkpoint C

2012-03-06

everyone forced through BKSX, WTMD wasn't even turned on

1100a

0

US

Terminal 4, Checkpoint A

2012-02-09

1 line feeds to 4-5 TSA boarding pass screeners, so you get whoever's free and calls you over - hard to self-select unless two are free at the same time. I was called by the guy on the far right, who hand-swabbed me. Past him there were two lane options - 5 and 6, both with MD and Backscatter. I chose 5 as i could see that the BCKSX was roped off and not in use. All lanes appears to have both MD and BS, looked like most BS were not in use, but i was not able to see all lanes.

200p

10

WN

T4 - Checkpoint C

2012-01-15

Between orange and red - most, but not all, passengers directed to BKSX. Opted out and was on my way after pat-down in five minutes. Polite and professional staff.

1140a

10

US

4/A

2011-12-28

Xray closed at lane 6 on right.

1200p

5

US

B gates

2011-12-26

4 lanes open, 3 w/NoS as primary. NoS on the far left side blocked off, so easy to opt-out.

810a

4

US

Term 4, gate b

2011-12-26

herding everyone to porno, if you try the metal detector they pull you out for the backscatter

At about 5 pm, there were two lines, regular metal detector on the left, backscatter x-ray on the right, you could choose your own lane. No issues, TSA personnel were polite.

US

A/B

2011-04-01

50-50 between use of bs/radiation and magnetometer. I elected a pat-down from a man who was obviously a beginner, but very nice about it.

US

Terminal 4 A

2011-03-11

The opt-out agent was quite polite. The wait was about 2 minutes, and I had to stand near the machine. I was unable to see my items during that time.

US

Terminal 4 D

2011-02-26

At 6 AM there was concerted effort to force you into BS....we declined, asked for patdown, and got no cooperation to have our items in our view. Was told "you asked for the opt out, you have to wait." They made sure that we had to stand right near the BS machine while waiting.

AA

South CP Term 3

2011-02-19

US

1 (US Airways)

2011-02-13

All lanes that I could see had backscatter roped off. Elite line had chair and rope in front of scanner.

DL

DL or Hawai'ian or AA

2011-01-26

Int'l

Terminal 4

2011-01-17

US

checkpoint a

2011-01-02

lines 2 and 4 both led to a RAPE-I-scan that was roped off. the other machines were probably also roped off.

US

a

2011-01-01

UA

Terminal 2

2010-12-27

UA

Terminal 2

2010-12-27

DL

Terminal 3, Delta concourse

2010-12-21

I was an arriving passenger, and noted status as I was leaving; no scanner at that one. no observation of other checkpoints

WN

4C

0000-10-14

all

0000-00-00

Machines installed, not in use

UA

0000-00-00

machine in use

UA

1

0000-00-00

tsa can be benign here or horrible. hit and miss. just try being cordial and they may allow sdoo

all

Terminal 4

0000-00-00

One machine installed, doesn't seem to be in use. If you fail the metal detector you get a grope